{{Short description|Albanian mobster}} {{BLP one source|date=August 2012}} '''Ismail Lika''' was a Kosovar-Albanian mobster active in New York City in the 1980s.
<!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: right|thumb|220px|Ismail Lika(right) in Miami prison dubbed "King of Drugs". --> Dubbed the king of the New York drug underworld, Ismail Lika issued a contract on Giuliani's prosecutors in 1985. Ismail Lika was the leader of an ethnic Albanian criminal outfit involved in trafficking heroin from Afghanistan and Turkey, via Kosovo into US. Caught with at least $125 million in heroin, members of this Kosovan smuggling outfit issued a $400,000 contract on the prosecutor Alan Cohen and the detective Jack Delemore, both placed under protective custody as the result.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1985-03-14 |title=THE CITY; HEAD OF DRUG RING GETS LIFE IN PRISON |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/14/nyregion/the-city-head-of-drug-ring-gets-life-in-prison.html |access-date=2025-04-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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